Re: [Talk-ca] OpenStreetMap at the Crossroads – The Map Room

2016-08-19 Thread Begin Daniel
+1 From: Adam Martin [mailto:s.adam.mar...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, 19 August, 2016 12:21 To: Stewart C. Russell Cc: talk-ca@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] OpenStreetMap at the Crossroads – The Map Room Wait! You mean a robot ... Made a mistake!!?? Say it ain't so! Sarcasm aside,

Re: [Talk-ca] OpenStreetMap at the Crossroads – The Map Room

2016-08-19 Thread Adam Martin
Wait! You mean a robot ... Made a mistake!!?? Say it ain't so! Sarcasm aside, it's not surprising. The article speaks so highly of the robots and the crisis peeps over the crafters and the arm chair people. But it has been my experience that unless the importer is skilled and regularly consults

[Talk-ca] District of North Vancouver: Licence Check

2016-08-19 Thread Henry Armitage
Hello all, I was reviewing the OSM wiki for Vancouver (more accurately, the Metro Vancouver Region): http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Canada:British_Columbia:Vancouver#GIS_sources_by_city In that, I noted that the District of North Vancouver's Licence is given as "restrictive", but no reason

Re: [Talk-ca] OpenStreetMap at the Crossroads – The Map Room

2016-08-19 Thread Stewart C. Russell
This week's weeklyOSM has a bit about an over-zealous robot from Facebook: Imports * The Data Working Group (DWG) has reverted Facebook’s undiscussed import of poor quality autorecognized

[Talk-ca] weeklyOSM #317 08/09/2016-08/15/2016

2016-08-19 Thread weeklyteam
The weekly round-up of OSM news, issue # 317, is now available online in English, giving as always a summary of all things happening in the openstreetmap world: http://www.weeklyosm.eu/en/archives/7982/ Enjoy! weeklyOSM is brought to you by ...